Shipping-case for fruit



(No Model.)

D. S. CARPENTER. YSHIPPING CASE POR FRUIT. No. 597,391. Patented Jan. l8, v1898.

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DANIEL S CARPENTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

vSl--lllPlNGeCASE FOR FRUIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,391, dated January 18, 1898.

Application led September 5, 1896. Serial No, 604,935. (No model.)

'o all wtoim/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL S. CARPENTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Shipping-Case for Fruit, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to means for packing fruit for shipment; and my object is to provide a means which is specially adapted to use in the shipment of bananas which gives much better results than is the case by the methods ordinarily adopted.

My new shipping-case is described hereinafter and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing a packing-case in which is embodied my irnprovement. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing manner of suspending a bunch of bananas within the case, the latter having a portion of the top broken away. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 7 8, Fig. 1, showing a supporting-bandage attached at one side only of the case, in which condition the bunch of bananas may be placed in position within the case, when the second bandage may be placed in proper position, as shownin the section, Fig. 4, inclosing the bananas. Fig. 5 is an elevation of one ot the bandages spread out dat to show the side edges, which are in this instance slitted so as to form'tongues whose outer ends are attached by means of tacks to thefsides of the oase. Fig. 6 shows, respectively,a strip Whose ends are not slitted and a strip having the ends slitted and which may serve in place of the bandage, Fig. 5, to hold a bunch of bananas in position in the case. The bandage, however, as shown in position in Fig. l is preferred, since the fruit is more completely covered than would be the case where a series of single strips are used. I

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

The case A is'usually made of wood and may have the front and rear sides open, as shown in the drawings, or be closed by securing'covers on these sides, as may be desired, for the better protection of the fruit.

At one end of case A is a hole to receive a plug B, which 4latter is protected at the outside end by a cover-block C. The bandages D or E are usually made of burlap or some other similar strong and inexpensive textile fabric, and the side edges are slit-ted to forni tongues F, which are usually less than two inches in width and of alength of about onelthird the width of the fabric.

In packing a bunch of bananas by this method a piece of fabric similar to what is shown by D, Fig. 5, is placed in the case A and each of the tongues F is securely nailed at the outer end to the side marginal edges of the case, and since the fabric is much wider than the case it maybe pressed inwardly and forni a kind of hammock similar to what is shown in Fig. 3. If now a bunch of bananas is placed upon the bandage D, the saine may be secured at one end from longitudinal movement in one direction by inserting the usual suspensory string G thereof, Fig. 2, into the hole at the end of the case and then fasten the string firmly in position by driving into the hole the plug B, the bunch being shifted befuore securing the string, so that the lower end thereof is clearof the lower end of the case.

The second bandage E is applied' by insertof bandage D until they appear on the opposite side of the case, when they may be pulled tight and the outer ends thereof nailed to the margins of the case at each side and opposite to the margins on which bandage D is secured, when the bunch of bananas will be held between the two bandages, Fig. l, where it is impossible for the bunch to contact the sides of the box or the ends thereof, since thebandages maybe pulled in so close around the ends of the bunch that any longitudinal motion thereof in either direction is effectually prevented.

It is intended that the end of the case in which the string G, attached to the bananas, is secured is the top, and the cover-block C, vforming quite a large protuberance, insures that the'case will'in most instances be set down in the position indicated in Fig. 2, when most of the weight of the bunch will be sustained by the suspensory string G, the bandages serving as yielding guards to prevent swinging about. This manner of packing bananas is intended to obviate the use of straw, which is almost always used for this purpose and is objectionable in that it iniing the tongues F thereof between the slits parts e straw flavor to: the fruit, ends danT gerous onV account of life, since both the pack- .y ing and; unpacking rooms must necessarily have much loose .straw scattered about.

In my new. method offpaeking: it, is not really objectionable to place` the oase with x my particular side uppermost, forthea'eeson that the bandages swing the hunch-elem of the y@este in rmay'lqbositlorh It is obvious that sex/Temi of these Ceses may' be framed togetherMV to form one large cese, *Y

It must be. understood that I do not'eon flue myself tothe exact method of applying the-V .suspensory bandages, S'uce't is 'evdentthat many'dfferent kinds or forms ofbendge's `maybe employed to suspend Vthe fruit clear.

of the outer protecting-'cese and not in the.y

least change the resultattained.y Y

I claim as my nven'tionmi i f Y In a shipping-case for .bananarsdthe combnatiou with au outer poteotngease, of 0pposng suspe'nsoriesfbetweeu Whieh is disposed a hunehof 'hauenas,the sides of the suspensores projeotngvlaterally Vfrom the Y 1hunch of bananas, and th'eeteml terminal. ends ofthe suspensories attached 'tothe sides of the cese, Wherebythe ban'zmae .are directly supported laterally; from Veoutwt with Vthe sides of the oase, forfthe purpose :"steted.y

In testimony that I Claim thezfoegong I 'Q have hereunto set my haue, this 29th day elV August, 18.96, in the presence of Witnesses;

. DANIEL' S. CARPENTER.

vVitnesses H. H. HALE, CLEMENCE K. VETTERLING. 

